July 2010

Dear C.A.S.I.U. Members and Friends:

This year has been a very busy time for Insurers especially trying to deal with staged accidents and the increased pressure on accident benefit adjusters from clinic invoice abuse including overbilling, exaggerated and inflated claims to name a few.

The Statutory Accident Benefit Schedule changes are scheduled to come into force on September 1, 2010. I hope that the changes will assist in a reduction of abuse within the system as it stands and curb further attempts to manipulate legislation to the disadvantage of the public and insurers.

The combined annual C.A.S.I.U. and A.C.F.E. Fraud Seminar will be held in September and I encourage members to provide any items of interest that we may address along with associated subjects of interest.

Our membership booklet will provide numerous contacts throughout the insurance industry and private sectors. I encourage our members to utilize these resources included in our directory. We anticipate the printing of the Directory over the next few weeks and encourage all members to insure to register on line at www.casiu.ca to be included in the booklet. The mail outs to all members will be sent in late August and any additional memberships submitted afterwards will be added as an amendment. Access to our members list via the CASIU website is in progress.

This year we are asking for information, articles or items of interest to place on our web site to assist with ongoing education of our membership.

Please contact any of our Board Directors if you have any concerns or suggestions that will serve to stimulate and provide a better service to our membership at large.

If any member experiences any problems, please let me know via e-mail at: president@casiu.ca or info@casiu.ca. We look forward to this year being a successful and educational one where we can keep aware of current trends and ban together to curb abuse in the Insurance Industry.

Thank you

George Cleverdon
President, CASIU